--- title: Clean Screen® DAU Columns Utilised in Characterization of Oxycodone and Metabolites in Human Hair description: Clean Screen® DAU Columns Utilised in Characterization of Oxycodone and Metabolites in Human Hair. 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In Florida alone, the past decade’s increase in prescription drug overdoses due to OC far exceeded that of methadone, hydrocodone, and morphine. Oxycodone and oxymorphone were extracted from 10-50 mg of digested, acid-washed hair using UCT’s CLEAN SCREEN® DAU mixed-mode solid-phase extraction columns. Samples were analyzed via LC-MS/MS. Excellent sensitivity, linearity, and recoveries were obtained.  Of note, during the study, 466 specimens contained OC, with a mean concentration of 2,375 pg/mg. Of these OC positive specimens, only 47 (10%) contained detectable oxymorphone, indicating that methods may need to either monitor for lower concentrations of OM and/or begin to analyze for the presence of noroxycodone, another first-order metabolite of OC. 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